Human Rights

Panel Discussion

HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION CRITICAL PREREQUISITES FOR ACHIEVING PEACEFUL WORLD,

SAYS GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT AT HEADQUARTERS OBSERVANCE

 

Following is the statement by Jean Ping (Gabon), President of the General Assembly, at the opening of the plenary session commemorating the Decade of Human Rights Education in New York, 10 December:

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

71^st Meeting (PM)

General Assembly adopts 24 resolutions, four decisions as it takes action

on reports of special political, decolonization committee

Delegates Also Adopt Texts on Assistance

To Rwanda Genocide Survivors, Cooperation with Regional Organizations

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

70^th Meeting (AM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROCLAIMS WORLD PROGRAMME FOR HUMAN RIGHTS EDUCATION,

STRESSING ITS IMPORTANCE TO REALIZATION OF ALL FUNDAMENTAL FREEDOMS

Assembly President Jean Ping (Gabon) Says Effective Human Rights

Education Remains Best Prerequisite for Achievement of Peaceful World

Deputy Secretary-General’s human rights day message to General Assembly

stresses need to remember persisting abuses worldwide

 

She Describes Occasion as Opportunity

For Rededication to Essential Strategy of Human Rights Education

Following is the text of Deputy Secretary-General Louise Fréchette’s statement to the General Assembly on Human Rights Day, observed in New York today, 10 December:

Security Council

5097^th Meeting (AM)

SECURITY COUNCIL BRIEFED BY CHAIR OF MONITORING BODY CREATED

TO COMBAT PROLIFERATION OF MASS DESTRUCTION WEAPONS

 

Established in April by Resolution 1540 (2004),

Committee Now Set to ReviewState Domestic Controls Addressing Threat

Note to Correspondents

SUMMIT TO LAUNCH INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH INITIATIVE ON YOUTH,

 

TECHNOLOGY AND LEARNING ON 13 DECEMBER

 

Efforts to Focus on New Generation of Tech-Savvy Learners

Note to Correspondents

UN ‘NEEDS CHANGE – PERHAPS RADICAL CHANGE’ TO MEET 21^ST CENTURY THREATS OF aids,

GENOCIDE, TERRORISM, SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Following is Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s statement to the General Assembly in New York, 8 December:

You received last week the report of the High-Level Panel, entitled “A More Secure World:  Our Shared Responsibility”. 

SECRETARY-GENERAL STUDIES ETHIOPIAN PROPOSAL ON BOUNDARY COMMISSION

Following is a statement attributable to the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan:

Further to the Secretary-General’s statement of 26 November, he has studied the five-point proposal that the Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi submitted to Parliament on 25 November.